Welcome to the the twenty-sixth edition of the Gods Unchained Weekly Recap! The news just keeps coming and this is a very full post. This week's biggest news came as the result of a...
Season One Card Leak
Immutable had a bit of a SNAFU this week as they accidentally released the stats for the Season One card set over their public API. So, rather that leaving that info in the hands of only a few who happened to be actively monitoring the API, they elected to release the full card list to everyone.
It should be noted that this is not final and all of these cards are still being tweaked, tested, renamed and all that other goodness. Nevertheless, it is still a very interesting peek into what we can expect from Season One. The blog post below talks more about the incident and has a link to the spreadsheet card list.
https://blog.godsunchained.com/2020/03/04/trial-of-the-gods-expansion-full-card-list/
z3ll wrote up a several articles going over the full list of cards. You can read those at the links below
- https://steempeak.com/hive-140217/@z3ll/gods-unchained-trial-of-the-gods-card-list-revealed-we-are-getting-neutral-spells
- https://steempeak.com/hive-140217/@z3ll/gods-unchained-trial-of-the-gods-card-list-review-2-thaeriel-the-olympian-powerhourse
- https://steempeak.com/hive-140217/@z3ll/gods-unchained-trial-of-the-gods-card-list-review-3-late-game-equals-death
Official Stream and Videos
In addition to providing us with the spreadsheet of the card list, Andrea and Petrify previewed over a dozen cards from Season One in the Official Stream from this week. They also talked about tweaks to the Favor system and an upcoming 'dark-mode' board. The stream is definitely worth a watch. You can view it on Twitch -
You can also read a summary of the stream here - https://steempeak.com/godsunchained/@cryptoznewb/gods-unchained-season-one-card-list-deception-champion-reveal-and-new-dark-mode-board
Orfeo, Champion of Deception
Another part of the stream was the fourth Champion reveal. This week we were shown Orfeo, Champion of Deception! A very interesting card with a new mechanic that we haven't seen before. I can't wait to see what sort of tricks players come up with utilizing this card in annoying ways!
You can read his origin story at the blog link below.
https://blog.godsunchained.com/2020/03/05/chapter-5-orfeos-origin-masks/
Balance Changes
As usual there were no balance... wait... hold on! We did have changes this week! With many weeks of no changes at all, this is a welcome bit of fresh air.
Reanimate was changed to give Soulless to both Creatures, the target and the one summoned from the Void (finally!) Heal was also changed so that it can only target Friendly Characters (another change that has been needed for some time). And finally, Penitence was altered to give the user a buffed up Acolyte rather than a slightly weaker version of the targeted Creature. You can read the full balance notes at https://www.reddit.com/r/GodsUnchained/comments/fcnzw3/balance_update_3032020/?
In addition, there was also a tweak to the Favor system. Now you only receive Favor for Creature on Creature violence if your Creature survives the encounter, and you can also be granted Favor when you Creature kills an opponent's Creature while defending.
Great changes that have been needed for some time. I find it kind of odd that the Heal and Reanimate adjustments took so long to materialize, but at least we have them now and it shows that the devs are not completely oblivious to the players' feedback.
Marketplaces
The Immutable team have made a few updates to clean up the in-game Marketplace interface. You can read about those changes on the official blog - https://blog.godsunchained.com/2020/03/05/marketplace-buyers-update/
Gu.cards has updated their sell instantly feature. You can read the details on that here - https://www.reddit.com/r/GodsUnchained/comments/feyxrz/sell_instantly_reworked_now_on_gucards/
Dev Update
No offiical Dev update this week.
There were a few patches. One was for the Favor tweak mentioned above. Another was a change to the Gauntlet on March 1st.
There are some minor changes coming to the Gauntlet of the Gods! From now on, all users' Gauntlets will be resetting at 12:00am UTC (11:00am AEDT). This change has been made to help even the playing field and will take effect from tomorrow onwards.
And here is a list of bug fixes that were also included in the recent patches:
- We've fixed several issues where users were getting stuck on the ‘Building Scene’ loading screen message.
- We've added in some new error message popups to acknowledge specific situations if a player gets stuck on a loading screen.
- We’ve fixed a couple of issues reported by users, including where quickly attacking enemy creatures after queuing an effect that causes a selection overlay to appear could leave copies of the defeated creatures stuck on the board, as well as where killing an Afterlife creature with a Deadly creature could trigger the Afterlife effect twice, and other situations where a player may become unable to perform further actions.
- We’ve resolved an error with the launcher’s volume slider, which sometimes did not display the correct value.
- We’ve amended the ability to save a deck’s name in the Workshop.
- And finally, we’ve resolved an issue which caused the in-game bug reporting tool to close when a player's turn ends
- Outside the game, we’re also dropping a couple of optimizations:
- You may notice some changes to our Marketplace UX, where there will now be reduced steps for search/filter assets and other flows during purchasing.
- We’ve also fixed a minor bug with the Marketplace price tracker chart.
- Users can now see a link to track the Forge process on Etherscan, which will make it much easier to find the status of any fuses that are in progress!
- We’re also adding a logout button to the website.
- To cap things off, we’ve made improvements to the Immutable launcher. There will be a rework of how users queue for games and improved stability of finding a game.*
These updates have been awesome! It feels like the game is back on track and development is proceeding apace after a long drought with not much happening (from the players' perspectives). Looking forward to more tweaks and fixes!
Meta
The meta continues to try and adapt to the Sanctum. More decks are being built to take advantage of ( or even abuse) the Favor system. Light and War are still very strong contenders, particularly with Heaven's Light and Slayer. Onslaught has also been making a comeback since you can make favorable, reactive attacks that allow you to gain Favor faster than your opponent.
The Sanctum has caused a major shakeup on the game in general, and it can often feel like you're playing the Sanctum more than you're playing your carefully crafted deck. In particular, the Sanctum system has really messed with deck archetypes that were a bit off the beaten path. Soul Burn, for example, has been hard hit. It's still a useful God Power, but since it doesn't generate any Favor, it will quickly fall behind.
There is quite a bit of negative sentiment about the Favor / Sanctum feature in it's current iteration. Fastexe wrote up an excellent post detailing the main issue and concerns with the system.
That's about it for this week. Another one jam packed with new and interesting info. Let's hope that next week is as interesting as the last few have been!
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